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Handel: Alcina (2015)
Philippe Jaroussky as Ruggiero is in thrall to Patricia Petibon as the sorceress Alcina in Katie Mitchell’s virtuosic production of Handel’s opera from the 2015 Aix-en-Provence Festival, described by Bachtrack as “a night of a thousand delights”. Conducted by Andrea Marcon, this was, in the words of Opera News, “musically … a performance of the highest festival level”. The production of Alcina, by the British director Katie Mitchell, was welcomed by the Financial Times as “meticulously executed …, rich in detail, consummately polished”. As the New York Times wrote: “It involves a huge sorcery machine for turning people into animals (or whatever). And Ms. Mitchell works magic of her own onstage, constantly showing the enchantresses Alcina and Morgana alternating between glamorous public personas and their ‘real life’, older, private selves …There are also bits of simulated sex, mingling genders and suggesting, among other things, inventive new ways to hit high notes.”
Updated Nov 6 2016
Cast
Philippe Jaroussky
Ruggiero
Anna Prohaska
Morgana
Katarina Bradic
Bradamante
Anthony Gregory
Oronte
Krysztof Baczyk
Melisso
Elias Mädler
Oberto
Andrea Marcon
Conductor
Crew
François Duplat
Producer
Georg Friedrich Händel
Compositors
Katie Mitchell
Director
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